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“Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals

Act I, sc. ii.
The Rivals (1775)

“We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,—our retrospection will be all to the future.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals

Act IV, sc. ii.
The Rivals (1775)

“You're our enemy; lead the way, and we 'll precede.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals

Act V, sc. i.
The Rivals (1775)

“My valour is certainly going! — it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palm of my hands!”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals

Act V, sc. iii.
The Rivals (1775)

“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic

Act I, sc. ii.
Source: The Critic (1779)

“Never say more than is necessary.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals

Act II, sc. i.
The Rivals (1775)

“Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal

Act I, sc. i.
Source: The School for Scandal (1777)

“The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals

Act IV, sc. iii.
The Rivals (1775)

“The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Sheridaniana, Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas.

“Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic

Act I, sc. ii.
The Critic (1779)

“Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,—disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic

Act I, sc. i.
The Critic (1779)

“There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic

Act I, sc. i.
The Critic (1779)

“An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal

Act IV, sc. i.
The School for Scandal (1777)

“While his off-heel, insidiously aside,
Provokes the caper which he seems to chide.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Pizarro (first acted 24 May 1799), Prologue.

“The Spanish fleet thou canst not see, because—it is not yet in sight!”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic

Act II, sc. ii.
The Critic (1779)

“He is the very pineapple of politeness!”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals

Act III, sc. iii.
The Rivals (1775)

“I leave my character behind me.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal

Act II, sc. ii.
The School for Scandal (1777)

“It was an amiable weakness.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal

Act V, sc. i.
The School for Scandal (1777)

“An apothecary should never be out of spirits.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

St. Patrick's Day (1775), Act I, sc. i.

“I loved him for himself alone.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Act I, sc. iii.
The Duenna (1775)